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Time again for another march toward t-shirt doom! Discuss this week's life-or-death struggle for sales supremacy as chronicled on the Reckoning page all week long.

Here's how the Reckoning week runs now: every Tuesday at midnight, we retire the previous week's lowest-selling shirts and launch
this here discussion thread. Tuesday around noon we'll post the all-new, all-early Reckoning Recon. On Friday, we'll juice demand and
prime the pump with a little weekend reminder post. Finally, on the following Monday, the Day of Reckoning post sounds the last call
for the Reckoned shirts. All of those posts will be linked below. Monday night (or Tuesday morning), it starts all over again. The
Reckoning, she is a hungry beast...

neuropsychosocial

YES. They forgot it this morning, and after it was pointed out, they forgot it again tonight. NOT COOL.

theoneill555 wrote:I just signed on to purchase a shirt or two before they disappeared and they are gone an hour early. This is almost as disappointing and not having monkeys end a woot-off.

Maybe woot will acknowledge their mistake and bring the shirts back for a day so that people who assumed that woot would Reckon the shirts at midnight - like they're supposed to do - will have the chance to grab them.

theoneill555

neuropsychosocial wrote:Maybe woot will acknowledge their mistake and bring the shirts back for a day so that people who assumed that woot would Reckon the shirts at midnight - like they're supposed to do - will have the chance to grab them.

O woot, I am disappoint.

I've got my fingers crossed. I have slowed way down on purchases since the blank changed but my son has got this Penguin fetish going on and I was finally going to get it for him along with a back up Shhhhhhhh!

Narfcake

neuropsychosocial wrote:Maybe woot will acknowledge their mistake and bring the shirts back for a day so that people who assumed that woot would Reckon the shirts at midnight - like they're supposed to do - will have the chance to grab them.

O woot, I am disappoint.

Just wanted to reiterate this. Along with the issue with the lack of inventory, it's been a major OUCH for the artists and Woot ... but especially the artists.

caramelarrow

Less than 50 days until Christmas and I feel so sad for all the artists with Royal Blue shirts. So many empty stockings that could have held a child-sized woot shirt. Maybe some elves somewhere can come help. Calling all shirt elves...... respond immediately to this woot-emergency!!!!!

(Also sad for those artists not able to sell Slate shirts in MXL. Perhaps the elves can help them, too.)

mrcamuti

I'd love to find a page where every shirt shirt.woot was still selling was listed. The reckoning lets me know what is going to be unavailable soon... but since I only visit the site occasionally, I currently have to look through the blog and see what's still for sale. That sucks. Consolidate so I can give you money faster, please.

neuropsychosocial

mrcamuti wrote:I'd love to find a page where every shirt shirt.woot was still selling was listed. The reckoning lets me know what is going to be unavailable soon... but since I only visit the site occasionally, I currently have to look through the blog and see what's still for sale. That sucks. Consolidate so I can give you money faster, please.

Monday-Thursday, all shirts for sale are contained on two pages; Thursday-Sunday, all shirts for sale are contained on three pages.

The Reckoning page displays all of the shirts that woot currently has for sale, except for the shirts being sold in the limited-run Woot Plus sales. To see what shirts are available in the Woot Plus sales, go to the main shirt.woot.com page and scroll down until you see the Woot Plus sales and click on those links.

neuropsychosocial

It's been a long few months. We're all sick of seeing ads for these shirts. Wooters seem intractably divided: worst woot-off ever or worstest woot-off ever? At long last, after a tedious day of ballot counting, we are pleased to announce the results of Wootlection 2012:

Papaya79

WOW, Woot's shirt shortage is artifically skewing numbers and screwing artists. I hope they come up with a plan to make this right, but it hasn't happened so far on a number of changes. Disappointed again...

citizencoyote

I come back from a week out in the field and see that the woot world has gone crazy. The Binge at #18-19? They still haven't figured out the blue blank shortage? The third oldest shirt gets reckoned an hour early?

gement

The past reckonings feature seems to be broken. Hitting the one-back link gave me the same page. Manually editing the reckoning number back by 5 or 10 or 50 also gave me the same page, though the URL stayed as I typed it.

citizencoyote

I'm really not sure I like this change. It's kind of neat to be able to buy any old shirt again, but it really kills what made Woot kind of special and cool, and totally changes the model they built. They seem just like any old shirt site now.

The Reckoning has been reckoned, and the shirt.woot world will never be the same.

frosty2469

bluejester

citizencoyote wrote:I'm really not sure I like this change. It's kind of neat to be able to buy any old shirt again, but it really kills what made Woot kind of special and cool, and totally changes the model they built. They seem just like any old shirt site now.

The Reckoning has been reckoned, and the shirt.woot world will never be the same.

I would take off my jester's cap in a show of mournful respect at its passing if it weren't attached to my head.

nathanwpyle

I'd like to take this moment to thank all you incredible number-crunchers - those who have faithfully given us artists the chance to see our DSRs, etc in the now good old days of do-or-die (rather than do-or-pay a bit more)

I STILL love the Reckoning (top 20) and love to see how my designs are doing and will check it often. I've always loved to see your math work here, and it has impressed (and even at times mystified) me.

neuropsychosocial

nathanwpyle wrote:I'd like to take this moment to thank all you incredible number-crunchers - those who have faithfully given us artists the chance to see our DSRs, etc in the now good old days of do-or-die (rather than do-or-pay a bit more)

Thank you, Nathan. Your post brought a tear to my eye. I'm so glad that the number-crunchers' work has been helpful to the artists and the community.

On a personal note, I'm currently sitting next to Narfcake, huddled under a shared blanket. The nightly numbers had an impact on our lives far beyond any statistical metric. It's odd that the thing responsible for introducing us is suddenly obsolete only a few months later.

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